The new movie Oz the Great and Powerful opens toda... ...eaters nationwide. The backstory of the wizard is loosely based on the L. Frank Baum book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Baum went on to write 14 more books about Oz, because... ...granddaughters was named after an Oz...

Once upon a time, fairy tales were dark fables des... ...hought kids deserved better.
In December 1900, L. Frank Baum was a struggling, 44-year-old writer living in Chicago with his wife and four children. Chris... ...four children. Christmas was only days away, and Baum w...

When L. Frank Baum wrote The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, could the yello... ...John Curran thinks so, and has done the research. Baum attended Peekskill Military Academy in 1868, when... ...ves the ordeal shaped the Wizard of Oz. "Whenever Baum had an emotional experience, such as...